BIB_ID
324594
Accession number
MA 469.25
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
"Tuesday" [1849 July 24].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Brookfield has canceled the passage regarding Dickens.
Date of writing identified by Ray.
Part of a collection of letters primarily from William Makepeace Thackeray to Jane Octavia Brookfield. Letters in the collection have been described individually; see related collection-level record for more information.
Date of writing identified by Ray.
Part of a collection of letters primarily from William Makepeace Thackeray to Jane Octavia Brookfield. Letters in the collection have been described individually; see related collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Summary
Reporting that he is in good health and must "get a rope or a chain to bind myself to my desk here;" remarking that it seems as if all the world is out of town, noting that "I'm alone, and miss you." Remarking that as he was running along the pier he met "the great Dickens with his wife his children his Miss Hogarth all looking abominably coarse vulgar and happy and bound to Bonchurch." Mentioning that he drank to her health at dinner and asking her to return Colonel Ferguson's letter because he must respond to him. Regretting that he will probably not be able to travel to Scotland in August. Asking her to write even if she has nothing to say.
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